As we embark on a mini North American tour to perform Olivier de Sagazan's creation "La Messe de L'Ane" I look back at this text I had written at the beginning of this three-year tour, which had initially served me as an experiment to narrate the performance from the many roles I am privileged to drift through in those magical 50 minutes on the obscure stage. I have been running for three billion years and a half
to then walk seven times anticlockwise around a mecca of happening with a core that I will eventually form part of by undressing my own skins and plucking a strange fruit hanging from the chandelier this fruit will undergo a metamorphosis borne from my sex to which I will emancipate both of us from one another by smashing it to the ground that will eventually cause shockwaves and even a great darkness to descend but we all know a renaissance is always around the corner and under a strange green light, we open one of our own in search for the truth that lies within us but this wretched body got rid of the truth- it cut the thread linking the truth to its existence so that we would not be able to catch it, so that we would never find out! With disgust we laugh and parade around the cadaver only to risk slipping into the great abyss ourselves. We retreat in the darkness. Thankfully we have survived and so did the cadaver in her own special way but it mattered differently then, as the darkness transformed us and relieved us of our ugly faces. I, now a woman, dedicate a mourning song to the cadaver in my native tongue A song that, like the undressing earlier on, felt like an eternity but in truth lasted mere seconds The cadaver in return continued her journey of seduction, torsions and conquering the scene and I celebrated with her, we all did! And a lot of time has since passed, but the events that followed the procession make me wonder; were we to have known we'd soon be transformed into the maker's dream? La Messe de L'Ane creation Olivier de Sagazan le 5 et le 6 octobre à Montreal le 12 et le 13 à Quebec
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